Euro counterfeiting ring broken by Polish-German investigators

Polish and German police have broken up an international gang forging Euro bills and distributing them in Western Europe. The gang managed to introduce false bills to the value of euro 1.5 million. The officials managed to arrest twelve people - ten Poles and two Ukrainians - seized printing machines and many half-finished bills. This was the first such gang in Poland and is believed to be one of only a few counterfeiting gangs of its size in the world. The police tracked the gang for several months and discovered that the Poles were responsible for finding people for the bills' production, while the German units sought out distributors. General Adam Rapacki stressed that the investigation was very demanding, as production was divided into stages and located in a number of provincial cities and all the distributors were experienced and working in deep secrecy. The police said that further arrests would follow. (www.rmf.pl, Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) M.M.